My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

A man is ethical only when life as such is sacred to him that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

Like all young men I set out to be a genius but mercifully laughter intervened.

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak they are manners morals and medicine.

I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help rather than suffer.

I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to as our generation becomes the leaders you are gonna see a change and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country.

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.